Overkill on the CAI

[Evolver]

tahnx im going to have to try one of these things out, but there has to be something made specificaly for this. to keep the air cold.

 

[3L3C7R0]

there is, they have a wrap that goes around it that you can spray with water or some other stuff, can't remember

 

[NitrousBob]

abs rules... like 20 bucks worth of rubber and parts... I couldnt find that damn 2.5 to 3.0 reducer... I seen silicone ones for 7.50 from a place in BC.. about one third the price of US shops. anyways.. if I knew how to put a picture up I would... I also removed those damn water hoses from the throttle body.. a couple more dollars in sheet metal and an pipe insulation wrap thingy (looks like a foam tube) to seal off the hood and wham... cai... oh yeah... f injen.. my new manifold will cost less than that damn intake system.

 

[Mike1992]

My new CAI, pics in my gallery

 

[NitrousBob]

thats what I was following.. was your pictures... I just didnt want it down in the front.. I live in washington and it rains like crazy here sometimes... I also drive about 90k miles a year I dont think it will survive down there.. if you go to the muckleshoot casino parking lot on the wrong day you will have water up to your doors.. my exhaust was under water.. good thing I made it through

 

[Mike1992]

I have no problems with my setup in the rain, however i figure if I went threw a puddle I'd most likely have issues. Where ya gonna mount your filter?

 

[NitrousBob]

I was going to mount it in the bay with a box around it and put some bigger holes to the SMIC area to get fresh air... I have also tried running a flexible tube to under the car say under the passenger foot area and you actually get pressurized air over 60mph... just got to use a screen or something to keep the leaves out.

 

[IceDragon]

NO ONE MAKES ONE FOR OUR CAR... PERIOD.

MAN you are funny... why, because every intake for our car that ends where the stock one does is a cold air intake, why might you ask? Because it comes directly in from the front of the car, and at that, it can be classified as ram air because you air forcing the air in as you drive forward, the actual meaning of a CAI is that the air is sucked in cold... which means it does not pass any hot part, the stock one is right from the outside, easy as can be for an intake, it is the coldest air your gonna get, especially if you don't hack out the back of the intake can at the other end from the throttle body.... thats designed like it is to have that back so that the hot air from the engine doesn't come in, and thats a good thing... anyways... yeah... just about any intake out there for a 1g dsm is cold air as long as it ends there behind your headlight and has some sort of wall to keep out hot air from the engine.

 

[3L3C7R0]

MAN you are funny... why, because every intake for our car that ends where the stock one does is a cold air intake, why might you ask? Because it comes directly in from the front of the car, and at that, it can be classified as ram air because you air forcing the air in as you drive forward, the actual meaning of a CAI is that the air is sucked in cold... which means it does not pass any hot part, the stock one is right from the outside, easy as can be for an intake, it is the coldest air your gonna get, especially if you don't hack out the back of the intake can at the other end from the throttle body.... thats designed like it is to have that back so that the hot air from the engine doesn't come in, and thats a good thing... anyways... yeah... just about any intake out there for a 1g dsm is cold air as long as it ends there behind your headlight and has some sort of wall to keep out hot air from the engine.

ok.. for starters, you are half right and half wrong. Our stock intake is kinda a cai, but just restrictive. Any intake that ends where ours does is ram air, correct there. CAI mean cold air induction, which means it draws in cold air, right there again, but the after that is where you went wrong. It does suck in air from the front, which passes through the radiator, which warms up the air from outside because the collant is rather warm. Also, the air under a stock hood is not displaced by any means. It doesn't really go anywhere, it just sits around and warms up. So if you get an intake which ends where the stock one does then it will be drawing in warm air from the engine bay. For it to be true CAI, it must route out of the engine compartment. Just thought I'd clarify so no one was mislead.

 

[ricky750]

hence the lovely snorkel...

 

[TimG]

MAN you are funny... why, because every intake for our car that ends where the stock one does is a cold air intake, why might you ask? Because it comes directly in from the front of the car, and at that, it can be classified as ram air because you air forcing the air in as you drive forward, the actual meaning of a CAI is that the air is sucked in cold... which means it does not pass any hot part, the stock one is right from the outside, easy as can be for an intake, it is the coldest air your gonna get, especially if you don't hack out the back of the intake can at the other end from the throttle body.... thats designed like it is to have that back so that the hot air from the engine doesn't come in, and thats a good thing... anyways... yeah... just about any intake out there for a 1g dsm is cold air as long as it ends there behind your headlight and has some sort of wall to keep out hot air from the engine.

It's funny how my logger stated that the intake temperature dropped significantly after I did the custom CAI install. I guess the shorter CAI as you call it was cold enough for you... but the colder the better for me. Which was in the fender between the bumper skin and frame.

 

[hoffjay]

Eagle _5 trust me ive been looking for over a year,nobody makes one.

have you guys ever saw a cosmo racing air filter adaptor? it gets rid of the whole air canister, but you have to keep the mas. check it out at www.cosmoracing.com.

 

[carguyinok]

Just a thought I have had on a new style CAI I havent seen yet. I have a 2g GS as I have been looking to stand apart from the others. Has anyone used the hump in the hood for an air intake? I have done alittle test fitting & found you could cut an opening on the front side of the hump and weld in some mesh over the opening. Then turn the OEM filter box so the filter its self would press into the hood and only draw outside air via outside the hood. Yes it would take some work to make a good seal between the box and hood. But, with some work it could be done.
Any thoughts or has it been done?

 

[dr1665]

has it been done?

Yes. More than a couple times. To go as far as the sealed intake box from that hump, not so much, but I wouldn't think that would be as good. The battery is just below that hump, meaning you would have minimal room for a decent volume of air to reside before being drawn into the intake manifold.

Now, if you wanted to be creative, you could certainly give it a shot. Either way, you're going to gain a similar, paltry, amount of horsepower, but you can gain valuable fabrication skills for the future. I might suggest keeping the filter in the stock location and finding a way to duct the charge from this new vent back forward to an airbox built around the filter.